Author Instructions

During this seminar, focus will be put on fire safety of façades.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

• Standardization work
• Test and assessment methods
• Regulations
• Fire Safety Engineering
  
• Fire extinguishment and fire-fighter intervention
  
• Facade systems
• Products and material
  

Abstracts:

Authors are invited to submit papers covering these topics by email (facade2016@cstb.fr) by June, 30th 2015. Abstracts should be 2 pages long. Submitted papers will receive two independent peer reviews. Authors will be notified of the decision of acceptance beginning of October 2015.

Papers:
A document template for the paper can be downloaded. Full papers are expected for 31 January 2016. Please send the Word version by email to facade2016@cstb.fr.

The Licence Agreement can be downloaded. Authors shall fill, sign and send it back to facade2016@cstb.fr. This is needed for the publication of each of their contributions in the proceedings of 2^nd International seminar for Fire Safety Façade. The proceedings will be published by EDP Sciences in both a book format and an open access journal. This choice is made to ensure a large dissemination of your work. For more details, you can visit the publisher web site: http://publications.edpsciences.org/

Poster:
Poster dimension: 120 x 80 cm (A0, Portrait). Bring the poster with you at the seminar. You can find more information concerning poster in the document here.

PowerPoint presentation:
A PowerPoint template is available here to prepare the presentation.